Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-09
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TIE address Of Rev. Dr.. Cunningham Is
changed from $40 Main street to 1B Four
tenth street
ALL the city and county officers b u
M shop Yesterday and with the other
people took IN the great fair.
LOrs of people could be found wander
ing about the streats last evening, many
Of them not being able to find places 10
sleep.
COOP sized audiences assembled at o
the theatres last evening and were highly
entertained by the respective perform
anoes-
THE Potomac Fair will be held on the
.2lst and 22d inst, and it promises to be a
fine exhibition, excelling those Of previous
years.
THERE were sixteen cases before His
Honor Judge LETTERS, in Police Court this
morning, and the fines and costs amounted
to S172 20.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hyder Riley died yesterday afternoon, and
the bereaved parents have the sympathy OF
their many friends.
DAVID TUTTLE, engineer at the Cres-
cent Mill, had the two last fingers on his
right hand cut of Of badly crushed yester-
day afternoon, and DR.. Reed dressed the
wounds
MELISSA ROBINSON yesterday confessed
Judgment in the two cases against her, and
she was fined so and costs in the disor-
Derby case, and s. and costs for carrying
concealed weapons
II is learned that Elmer Clark, who s-
capped from the Weston Asylum some days
since, was captured the second day after
making his escape. He will be returned
to the penitentiaTy.
JENNIE GRAY and Bessie Bell, the lat
ter colored, were before Justice Davis, yes
terday. the former charged with profanity
was fined sand costs, and the latter, same
~offense, was sent 20 Jail for ten days.
the REGISTER is in receipt of a copy OF
the annual address to the Medical Society
of West Virginia, delivered by the Presi-
dent. DR.. S. /. Jepson, of this city, at its
recent meeting at White Sulphur Springs.
A CHAP named Buck Tyler was arrested
last evening on 4 peculiar charge. He run
a bootblscking scheme the special feature
OF which was that after he had blacked
one boot for q man ne would refuse to black
the other until the victim paid him %
cents. Buck is in the cooler.
CHARLEY HAMILTON was arrested ON
the Grounds yesterday for running some
sort OF a game in WHICH be sold a whip for
a certain amount aud gave the buyer a
chance TO win a dollar By striking . bell
with the whip. The scheme IS rather a
novel one and caught lots OF patrons.
An alarm of FIRE was sent in yesterday
afternoon about 4:3O o'clock, caused by
the roof of a house at Jacob and Forty
third streets, owned ny a Mr.. Rosser, be-
coming ignited from a spark. The depart
ment was called out, but its services were
not needed, as the IRE was e~xtinguished
| By the Eighth ward hcse company. The
damage was small.
A Row occurred in Fulton Wednesday
afternoon about { o'clock, in which Vim.
Glessner, and Vim. Folmer, who live out
beyond Elm Grove, and Col. Fisher were
participants. The story is that these
three men jumped on to Jacob LuiEter,
and pounded him up pretty badly. At
last Luikter Is bruised and he was in the
city yesterday TO get out warrants for his
assa:isnts.
A WOMAN named Mrs. Custer, who lives
at the corner of Eoff and Thirty-seyenth
streets. while crossing EOf street, last
| evening. was struck by a buggy and
knocked down. Her dress in some manner
became fastened in the running gear and
she was dragged some distance. The un-
! ~iortanate woman was picked upand taken
! to heE LOpe and q physician summoned,
who pronounced her injuries as serious.
A BOZ and an anonymous communica-
ton arrived at the REGISTER Office yester-
dag. They were from Coal valley, ". Va,
and the Communication sail: We saw
in your paper where you said you believed
I We lied in regard TO the bean, so enclosed
we send you a Jeda." The box contained
, several yards more or less of beans. One
Of thea Is - IeSst three quarters of a yard
| lOng. and if the REGisTER eyer said any
| one didn't have such q bean 1t IS willing
10 retract, because that bean j. Eight at this
Office.